Mark Aldrich is the Marilyn Carlson Nelson Professor of Economics Emeritus at Smith College. He has written extensively on railroad history, including Death Rode the Rails (2006).

Stephen E. Barton recently retired from the City of Berkeley after twenty-four years as a planner, deputy director of the Rent Stabilization Program, and housing director. He holds a PhD in city and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of numerous articles on housing policy and on neighborhood, tenant, and homeowner associations.

Lisa Blee is an assistant professor of history at Wake Forest University. Author of Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice (2014), she teaches courses on U.S. history, public history, and environmental thought.

E. Tsekani Browne is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Government at Bowie State University. Tsekani Browne completed BA and MA degrees in African American studies at the University of California at Los Angeles and a PhD in history at UCLA, with a dissertation on the African American intellectual Anna Julia Cooper. In addition to Bowie State, he has taught at Duquesne University, Scripps College, California University of Pennsylvania, and The Neighborhood Academy. His teaching and research interests include black intellectual history, slavery and emancipation, gender, race relations, racial and gender violence, and black popular culture.

Ian C. Hartman is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His most recent article, “West Virginia Mountaineers and Kentucky Frontiersmen: The Rhetoric of Race, Manliness, and Liberalism in the Early 1960s,” appeared in the Journal of Southern History in summer 2014. His manuscript, From Daniel Boone to the Beverly Hillbillies: The Collapse of Racial Anglo Saxonism in the Upland South, is currently under review.

Mark Pittenger is a professor of history at the University of Colorado. His most recent book is Class Unknown: Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present (2012). His current work concerns connections between Unitarian theology and social activism in the twentieth-century United States.

K. Stephen Prince is an assistant professor at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865–1915 (2014), which focuses on changing visions of the South in U.S. culture between the end of the Civil War and the rise of Jim Crow segregation. His new book project has the working title, The Ballad of Robert Charles: Race, Violence, and Memory in the Jim Crow South.

Woody Register teaches U.S. history and American studies at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He is the author, most recently, of “Some Truths about the Rumors, Gossip, Hearsay, and Innuendo surrounding the Freeport Murder Mystery of 1914” in the special section on “Uncertain Knowledge” in Rethinking History 18:1 (2014).

Wendy Rouse's research focuses on family life and childhood during the Progressive Era. She earned her PhD specializing in U.S. history and Asian American studies at the University of California, Davis. Her book, The Children of Chinatown: Growing up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850–1920 (2009), examines the myths and realities of the lives of Chinese children in an urban, ethnic enclave. She presently teaches history and social science teacher education at San Jose State University.

Beth Slutsky earned her PhD at the University of California, Davis, where she focused on modern American political, cultural, and women's history. Her first book, Subversive Women: Gendering Radicalism in Twentieth-Century America, under contract with University of Nebraska Press, examines the roots of female political radicals, especially in the American Communist Party. A lecturer in the history department at UC Davis, Dr. Slutsky also works with Davis's California History-Social Science Project to improve history education at the K–12 level.

John David Smith is the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His books include An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865–1918 (3rd ed., 2008); Slavery, Race, and American History: Historical Conflict, Trends, and Method, 1866–1953 (1999); Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro (2000); Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops (2013); Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops (2014, with Bob Luke); and We Ask Only for Even-Handed Justice: Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865–1877 (2014).

Ann Marie Wilson is an assistant professor of history at Leiden University College in The Hague, Netherlands. She is at work on a study of Americans and transnational humanitarian advocacy in the long nineteenth century.